Agriculture sector may grow at 3.1% in 2019-20: NITI Aayog
According to a NITI Aayog member, role of private sector in Indian agriculture sector has to come in a big way, there is a need of more investment in the sector
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Data protection must in Insecticides Act: Govt
Chemicals and Petrochemical Secretary, P Raghavendra Rao, today concurred with the industry’s view on the need for data protection provisions in the Insecticides Act to encourage R&D in crop protection products and combat the menace of spurious pesticides
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Investments will ensure competitiveness in livestock sector
Increasing investments into infrastructure particularly in supply chain; integrated policy making by considering agriculture and animal-husbandry sectors and encouraging innovations will go a long way in ensuring competitiveness of India’s livestock sector and help improve farmers income
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MSP hike makes good economics, for now: Assocham
Assocham feels that better realisations for farmers’ crops would leave more disposable income with them and would thus give a huge rural demand push to the Indian economy
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Centre releases model draft for Contract Farming Act
The Model Act will integrate farmers with bulk purchasers including exporters, agro- industries among other buyers, for better price realisation through mitigation of market and price risks to the farmers and ensuring smooth agro raw material supply to the agro industries
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